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World Building Advances in Stylistics Series Editor: Dan McIntyre, University of Huddersfield, UK Editorial Board: Beatrix Busse, University of Berne, Switzerland Szilvia Csábi, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary Monika Fludernik, University of Freiburg,Germany Lesley Jeffries, University of Huddersfield, UK Jean Boase- Beier, University of East Anglia, UK Peter Verdonk, University of Amsterdam (Emeritus), The Netherlands Larry Stewart, College of Wooster, USA Manuel Jobert, Jean Moulin University, Lyon 3, France Other titles in the series: Corpus Stylistics in Principles and Practice Yufang Ho Chick Lit: The Stylistics of Cappuccino Fiction Rocío Montoro D. H. Lawrence and Narrative Viewpoint Violeta Sotirova Discourse of Italian Cinema and Beyond Roberta Piazza I.A. Richards and the Rise of Cognitive Stylistics David West Oppositions and Ideology in News Discourse Matt Davies Opposition in Discourse Lesley Jeffries Pedagogical Stylistics Michael Burke, Szilvia Csábi, Lara Week and Judit Zerkowitz Sylvia Plath and the Language of Affective States Zsófia Demjén Style in the Renaissance Patricia Canning Stylistics and Shakespeare’s Language Mireille Ravassat Text World Theory and Keats’ Poetry Marcello Giovanelli The Stylistics of Poetry Peter Verdonk World Building in Spanish and English Spoken Narratives Jane Lugea World Building Discourse in the Mind Edited by Joanna Gavins and Ernestine Lahey Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc LONDON • OXFORD • NEW YORK • NEW DELHI • SYDNEY Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC1B 3DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com BLOOMSBURY and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2016 Joanna Gavins, Ernestine Lahey and Contributors, 2016 Joanna Gavins and Ernestine Lahey have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the Editors of this work. 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Typeset by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd., Chennai, India Contents List of Figures vii Notes on Contributors ix 1 World Building in Discourse 1 Joanna Gavins and Ernestine Lahey 2 ‘I felt like I’d stepped out of a different reality’: Possible Worlds Theory, Metalepsis and Digital Fiction 15 Alice Bell 3 Author- Character Ethos in Dan Brown’s Langdon- Series Novels 33 Ernestine Lahey 4 Building More- Than- Human Worlds: Umwelt Modelling in Animal Narratives 53 David Herman 5 Building Hollywood in Paddington: Text World Theory, Immersive Theatre, and Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man 71 Alison Gibbons 6 Speaker Enactors in Oral Narrative 91 Isabelle van der Bom 7 Text World Theory as Cognitive Grammatics: A Pedagogical Application in the Secondary Classroom 109 Marcello Giovanelli 8 Worlds from Words: Theories of World- building as Creative Writing Toolbox 127 Jeremy Scott 9 The Texture of Authorial Intention 147 Peter Stockwell 10 Building Resonant Worlds: Experiencing the Text- Worlds of The Unconsoled 165 Sara Whiteley 11 ‘This is not the end of the world’: Situating Metaphor in the Text- Worlds of the 2008 British Financial Crisis 183 Sam Browse vi Contents 12 The Humorous Worlds of Film Comedy 203 Agnes Marszalek 13 Spanglish Dialogue in You and Me: An Absurd World and Senile Mind Style 221 Jane Lugea 14 Autofocus and Remote Text- World Building in the Earliest English Narrative Poetry 241 Antonina Harbus 15 ‘Into the Futures of their Makers’: A Cognitive Poetic Analysis of Reversals, Accelerations and Shifts in Time in the Poems of Eavan Boland 259 Nigel McLoughlin 16 Stylistic Interanimation and Apophatic Poetics in Jacob Polley’s ‘Hide and Seek’ 277 Joanna Gavins Index 293 List of Figures 2.1 Bedroom scene in Consensus Trance I in Nightingale’s Playground 21 2.2 Street scene in Consensus Trance 1 in Nightingale’s Playground 27 3.1 The world architecture of Excerpt 3.3 43 4.1 A continuum of modes of speech and thought presentation 55 4.2 Contrasting norms for speech and thought presentation 61 4.3 Discourse domains and mind- ascribing practices 65 4.4 Key to the annotation system used for Excerpts 4.8 and 4.9 66 4.5 Norms for thought presentation across discourse domains 68 5.1 Ontological world structure for the opening to the Welcome Speech 75 5.2 Total world structure for the Welcome Speech 78 5.3 Figured Trans- Worlds in The Drowned Man 86 6.1 Text- world patterns in Yàn’s narrative, lines 1– 6 98 6.2 The priming of Text- World 1 through the discourse marker ‘you know’ 99 7.1 James’s drawing 118 7.2 Simon’s drawing 119 8.1 The triptych of practice- led creative writing research 129 11.1 The negated worlds of the APOCALYPSE metaphor 189 11.2 Dropping versus gyrating 194 11.3 The transition from simple image- schematic metaphor to complex sea storm megametaphor 195 11.4 The development of the sea storm metaphor across text- world cluster 197 11.5 Deictic repositioning in ‘Decades of Eroded Trust and Democracy Did the Damage’ 197 13.1 Excerpt 13.1: The discourse- world and initial text- world 225 13.2 Excerpts 13.1 and 13.2: The enactor text- world informs the initial text- world 227 13.3 Excerpt 13.4: Modal- worlds 232 13.4 A cline of absurdity across the worlds of You and Me 236 15.1 Text-world diagram for ‘Is it Still the Same’ 271 Notes on Contributors Alice Bell’s (Sheffield Hallam University) research interests are stylistics, cognitive poetics, narratology, Possible Worlds Theory, and digital literature. Her publications include The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Analyzing Digital Fiction (Routledge, 2014) and articles in Narrative, Journal of Narrative Theory, Storyworlds and Style. Sam Browse is a lecturer in the Department of Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University. His research draws on cognitive frameworks from stylistics, narra- tology and psychology to investigate the rhetorical effects of political discourse. He has taught on a wide range of subjects, including stylistics, discourse analy- sis, critical theory, grammar and narrative theory. Joanna Gavins is Reader in Literary Linguistics at the University of Sheffield, where she teaches courses in stylistics, linguistics and cognitive poetics. She is the author of Reading the Absurd (EUP, 2013), Text World Theory: An Introduction (EUP, 2007), and co- editor (with Gerard Steen) of Cognitive Poetics in Practice (Routledge, 2003). She has published widely on text- worlds, stylistics and cognitive poetics, and is Editor of the John Benjamins series Linguistic Approaches to Literature. She is Director of the Text World Theory Special Collection at the University of Sheffield. Alison Gibbons is Senior Lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University. She is the author of Multimodality, Cognition, and Experimental Literature (Routledge, 2012) and co- editor of Mark Z. Danielewski (MUP, 2010) and the Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature (2012). Alison’s research inter- ests centre on stylistic and cognitive-p oetic approaches to contemporary fiction and to innovative forms of narrative, including immersive and multimodal genres. Marcello Giovanelli is Assistant Professor in English Education at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has research interests in educational lin- guistics, pedagogical stylistics and cognitive poetics. His recent publications include Text World Theory and Keats’ Poetry (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Teaching Grammar, Structure and Meaning (Routledge, 2014).
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